streamer

Etymology

From Middle English stremere, equivalent to stream +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun

streamer (plural streamers)

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
   • John Dryden (1631-1700)
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
3. A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.
4. (heading) Of computing.
   1. A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
   2. Any mechanism for streaming data.

      a video streamer

   3. (Internet) A person who regularly streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
5. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
6. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
7. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
   • James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

     While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Macaulay to this entry?)

See also

• stream

Anagrams

• masterer, remaster, restream